Minor and trace sterols in marine invertebrates. 1. General methods of analysis.

abstract：:7-Oxo-dehydroepiandrosterone, which can be formed from dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) by several mammalian tissues, is more effective than its parent steroid as an inducer of thermogenic enzymes when administered to rats. Using the Morris water maze procedure, we tested DHEA and its 7-oxo-derivative for their ability t...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Shi J,Schulze S,Lardy HA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 7 alpha-methyl substituent is reported to increase the binding affinity of estradiol for the estrogen receptor (ER). In order to evaluate whether this substituent would improve the in vitro binding characteristics and the in vivo tissue distribution of 18F labeled estrogens that we are developing as positron emiss...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： VanBrocklin HF,Liu A,Welch MJ,O'Neil JP,Katzenellenbogen JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the binding characteristics of [3H]Delta(5)-androstene-3beta,17beta-diol to rabbit vaginal cytosolic and nuclear extracts and in freshly excised intact tissue strips. [3H]delta(5)-Androstene-3beta,17beta-diol bound to a protein(s) in the vaginal nuclear extract with high affinity (K(d)=3...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Traish AM,Huang YH,Min K,Kim NN,Munarriz R,Goldstein I

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of sex steroids in cervical mucus was performed at different phases of spontaneous or clomiphene-citrate-induced ovulatory cycles. To this end, 11 women with normal ovulatory cycles and 9 subjects with polycystic ovary syndrome of comparable age and body mass index were investigated. Serum and cervical mucu...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Adamopoulos DA,Kapolla N,Abrahamian A,Dessypris A,Nicopoulou S,Giannacodemos G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) reduces body fat in rodents and humans, and increases glycerol release from isolated rat epididymal adipocytes and human visceral adipose tissue explants. It suggests that DHEA stimulates triglyceride hydrolysis in adipose tissue; however, the mechanisms underlying this action are still u...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Karbowska J,Kochan Z

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural transformation of the steroidal lactone, oxandrolone (1), by suspended-cell cultures of the plant pathogen fungus Rhizopus stolonifer, resulted in the production of three new metabolites. These metabolites were identified as 11alpha-hydroxyoxandrolone (2), 6alpha-hydroxyoxandrolone (3) and 9alpha-hydroxyoxa...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Choudhary MI,Mohammad MY,Musharraf SG,Parvez M,Al-Aboudi A,Atta-ur-Rahman

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol-17 beta labeled with deuterium in the positions 2 or 4 can be prepared from 2-chloromercurio-1,3,5(10)-estratriene-3,17 beta-diol 3-methyl ether 17-acetate or 4-chloromercurio-1,3,5(10)-estratriene-3,17 beta-diol, respectively, in refluxing CH3COO(2)H/(2)H2O. The same reaction performed on 4-acetoxymercurio-...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Ferraboschi P,Ravasi M,Santaniello E

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high concentrations of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and pregnenolone sulfate in the mammalian brain, despite the blood-brain barrier's impermeability to these compounds, and the apparent independence of these concentrations from those in plasma prompted us to investigate whether enzymatic sulfation of dehydroepi...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Rajkowski KM,Robel P,Baulieu EE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review lays out the evidence for the role of E2 in homeostatic and hedonic feeding across several species. While significant effort has been expended on homeostatic feeding research, more studies for hedonic feeding need to be conducted (i.e. are there increases in meal size and enhanced motivation to natural foo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Rivera HM,Stincic TL

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of the heterocycles into the steroid nucleus has been recognized as a useful strategy to develop new steroidal agents for disease treatment. Representative examples are abiraterone and galeterone, which are presently used in clinic for the treatment of advanced prostate cancers. Herein we have develo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Yang YT,Du S,Wang S,Jia X,Wang X,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three protein fractions of the cytosol of the chick parathyroid glands, which had the sedimentation constants of 2.5 S, 3.7 S and 5.5 S, were found to bind with 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Among these proteins, the 3.7 S protein was assumed to be the specific receptor protein. The 3.7 S receptor protein was also ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Ishizuka S,Bannai K,Naruchi T,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterol mixture of the southern Japan's soft coral, Sarcophyton glaucum, was found to contain 11 sterols including a novel sterol, 23,24 xi-dimethylcholesta-5,22-dien-3 beta-ol and a new diunsaturated C29 sterol. 22,23-Dihydrobrassicasterol and gorgosterol were the major components in free- and esterified sterols r...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Kobayashi M,Tomioka A,Mitsuhashi H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brassinosteroids (BRs) are an important class of plant hormones with a multitude of functions. They have been intensively investigated for their biosynthesis, distribution and physiological functions. The aim of this study was to examine possible effects of BRs on the plant plasma membrane cation conductances and Ca(2...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Straltsova D,Chykun P,Subramaniam S,Sosan A,Kolbanov D,Sokolik A,Demidchik V

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes three simple and short methods for the conversion of cholic acid into cholylaldehyde with protected hydroxyl groups. The first method involves lithium aluminum hydride reduction of the tetrahydropyranyl ether of methyl cholate and oxidation of the resulting primary alcohol with pyridinium chloroch...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Batta AK,Tint GS,Dayal B,Shefer S,Salen G

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone 1alpha,25(OH)2vitamin D3 (1,25-D) produces biological responses via both genomic and rapid mechanisms. The genomic responses are linked to a nuclear receptor, while the rapid responses are believed to utilize other signal transduction pathways that are likely linked to a putative cell membrane receptor for...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Norman AW,Song X,Zanello L,Bula C,Okamura WH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 30 years, numerous studies in invertebrates and vertebrates have established a role of calcium in oocyte maturation as well as in the resumption and progression of follicular development. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCO) is characterized by hyperandrogenic chronic anovulation, theca cell hyperplasia, an...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Thys-Jacobs S,Donovan D,Papadopoulos A,Sarrel P,Bilezikian JP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen replacement therapy increases risk for ovarian epithelial cancer, a cancer of mainly older women, yet the response of older ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) to repeat estrogen exposure overtime has not been studied. We have previously reported significant reductions in estrogen receptor (ER) protein...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Gulliver LS,Hurst PR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of a radioiodinated diethylstilbestrol (DES) derivative is described. This derivative was prepared by coupling the previously synthesized active ester of 6-(4-O-diethylstilbestryl)hexanoic acid with mono-[125I]iodotyramine in dry tetrahydrofuran (20 to 22 C, 16 hours). The mono-[125I]iodotyramine was pre...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Economou EV,Livaniou E,Evangelatos GP,Ithakissios DS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence showed that the stress hormone corticosterone (CORT) injection resulted in dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis implicated in major depressive disorder. Magnolol, main constituent identified in the barks of Magnolia officinalis, exerted antidepressant effects in a rat model of depres...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Bai Y,Song L,Dai G,Xu M,Zhu L,Zhang W,Jing W,Ju W

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid receptor binding was compared in liver cytosol preparations from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats using homologous displacement of [3H]dexamethasone. At 5 degrees C, there was no difference in receptor binding affinity or concentration between strains for dexamethasone, ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Panarelli M,Holloway CD,Barr AB,Fraser R,Kenyon CJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten sex steroids were measured in the peripheral serum and ovarian follicular fluid of female pigs with or without cystic ovarian disease. In general, progestin, especially progesterone, accumulated excessively in the fluid contained in cystic compared with normal follicles. Nonluteinized cystic follicles contained up...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Babalola GO,Shapiro BH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preimplantation rabbit embryos were incubated with pregnenolone and dehydroisoandrosterone under conditions which gave formazan precipitation by the histochemical technique. The metabolic fate of the labeled steroids was assessed simultaneously. There was no concomitant transformation of pregnenolone to progesterone a...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Bleau G

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblasts are a main target for the steroid 1alpha,25(OH)2-Vitamin D3 (1,25D3), where a major outcome is the modulation of the bone remodeling process. 1,25D3 deficiency leads to clinical disorders such as osteomalacia and osteoporosis, characterized by a state of insufficiently calcified tissue and bone loss, respe...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Zanello LP,Norman AW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional interpretation of GC-MS output involved the semi-quantitative estimation of outstanding low or high specific metabolites and the ratio between metabolites. Here, we utilize a systems biology approach to steroid metabolomics of a complex steroid-related disorder, using an all-inclusive analysis of the stero...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Vitkin E,Ben-Dor A,Shmoish M,Hartmann MF,Yakhini Z,Wudy SA,Hochberg Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation of ring-A fused pyrimidines at the steroidal 2,3-position is herein described. The novel steroidal pyrimidines were prepared from the solid phase three-component reaction of 2-hydroxymethylene-3-keto steroids, arylaldehydes and ammonium acetate under microwave irradiation. ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Barthakur MG,Gogoi S,Dutta M,Boruah RC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique that permits measurement of Androgen-Binding Protein (ABP) is validated by reproducibility, linearity and correlation studies. Using this apparatus allowing Scatchard plot analysis, it is also possible to measure association and dissociation rate constants. In addition, it is a very useful tool for a r...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Barbey P,Fradin S,Carreau S,Drosdowsky MA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a substituent in the 12-position of progestagens was studied. To this end, various approaches toward the preparation of 12 beta-alkyl- and 12-alkylidenenorpregnanes were investigated. Eventually, the desired compounds 17 beta-hydroxy-12 beta-methyl-18a-homo-19-nor-17 alpha-pregn-4-en-20-yn-3-one (37) and...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Broess AI,van Vliet NP,Groen MB,Hamersma H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat uterine luminal epithelial cells (LEC) responded differently when exposed to an injection of 1.0 microgram estradiol-17 beta (E2) compared to a continuous infusion of E2 at the rate of 1.0 microgram/24 hours. After injection or beginning infusion, LEC mean nuclear area significantly decreased by 4 h, then increase...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Lavia LA,Roberts DK,Walker NJ,Anderson K

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon-11-labeled casimiroin analogues were first designed and synthesized as new potential PET agents for imaging of quinone reductase (QR) 2 and aromatase expression in breast cancer. [(11)C]casimiroin (6-[(11)C]methoxy-9-methyl-[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-h]quinolin-8(9H)-one, [(11)C]11) and its carbon-11-labeled analogues 5,...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Wang M,Gao M,Miller KD,Sledge GW,Hutchins GD,Zheng QH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) (1alpha,25(OH)(2)D(3)), the active metabolite of vitamin D, plays a role in regulating proliferation and differentiation of cells, in addition to its classic function in mineral homeostasis. Recent studies have also provided evidence for the involvement of 1a...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Shany S,Levy Y,Lahav-Cohen M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00